UPDATE: On Tuesday, Gov. Wolf called for the West York mayor to resign, citing racism and bigotry. Read that story here.

The posts include pictures depicting apes with captions referring to President Barack Obama and his family. One image of a wagon full of orangutans refers to "moving day" at the White House. Another refers to lynching.

At a borough council meeting on Monday night, council members censured the mayor -- meaning they formally disapproved of his actions and are asking for him to resign.

Dozens of residents spoke publicly at the meeting, some calling his posts "treasonous" and "threatening."

A petition asking state legislators to remove Wasko has circulated the West York community.

Wasko, who is white, says he's the victim of a "witch hunt."

The Republican isn't paid as mayor and votes only to break ties on the council. He also oversees the police department in the borough of 4,500. He was elected in 2013.

WHEREAS, Mayor Charles Wasko, sought and was duly elected to the office of mayor and has been sworn in January of 2014; andWHEREAS, Mayor Wasko has disrupted Borough Council meetings with bombastic and threatening behavior; andWHEREAS, Mayor Wasko has had to be removed from the Borough Municipal Building for misbehavior and character unbecoming of a Mayor; andWHEREAS, the entire West York Borough Council was made aware on Thursday September 29, 2016 of Mayor Charles Wasko’s divisive and deplorable social media posts; andWHEREAS, the Mayor of West York has made comments that have brought public shame on our community and local government; andWHEREAS, the Mayor has torn apart the community by publicly sharing unacceptable comments depicting, racism, bigotry, misogyny, religious and ethnic slurs; andWHEREAS, the Mayor of West York Borough has left no one behind in his hate speech and has hurt everyone in our community and beyond by his lude and deplorable hate speech; andWHERAS, these actions exhibit extraordinary disloyalty to all of the residents in West York Borough by a failure to represent all of the people equally under his oath of office, to uphold peace and security of the Borough and of the residents of the Borough of West York, convey a role of leadership and competency in the Borough, and to discharge the role of his office with respect and dignity; and